Firefox Download Counter Tweets

On Twitter, Identi.ca and Mozillaca

Donwload Milestone Tweets

There are special microblogs on Twitter, Identi.ca and Mozillaca that tweets/dents/mozes the Firefox Download totals every time the download total pases another 1 million downloads milestone:

• FirefoxTweets (RSS,Atom) on Twitter - Tweets major download milestones. Frequency: 1 tweet every million downloads.
• FirefoxMilestones (RSS, Atom) on Identi.ca - Dents major download milestones. Frequency: 1 dent every million downloads.
• FirefoxMilestones (RSS, Atom) on Mozillaca - Mozzes major download milestones. Frequency: 1 dent every million downloads.

Donwload Monitoring Tweets

There is also a microblog on Twitter that tweets the Firefox Download totals every time a new total is collected (which is every 5 minutes) so you can monitor the download totals more or less in real-time:

• FirefoxCounter (RSS,Atom) on Twitter - Tweets all collected updates of the counter. Frequency: 1 tweet every 5 minutes.

How it works

Mozilla publishes a feed that contains the total downloads. Our scripts check the total downloads every 5 minutes, if an updated total is found it will tweet this in the FirefoxCounter microblog on Twitter. Sometimes the total is not updated, in that case there will be no entry in the microblog. When the total passes a million mark, the script will tweet this in the microblogs on Twitter (FirefoxTweets), Identi.ca (FirefoxMilestones) and Mozillaca (FirefoxMilestones).

Also of Interest

If you like the download counter tweets you may also be interested in the following Firefox download counters:

• Firefox Download Counter in Party Mode - A running countdown in full screen mode.
• Creating a Firefox Download Counter - Code and software to add a download counter to your own site.
• Firefox Download Guesstimator - Attempts to guess when Firefox will reach the 1 billion downloads milestone.

• Discuss on SpreadFirefox.com - A place to discuss these download counter microblogs.

You can also follow my personal tweets/dents/mozes on Twitter/ottodv, Identi.ca/ottodv. and Mozilla.status.net/ottodv.